[josefx]

Afaik it had the opposite effect for OpenSSL. Not only was the code so bad that it would crash if ran with a secure malloc implementation. Due to being free and open source nobody felt the need to donate[1], with only one developer employed to work on it full time.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/tech-...

[_pmf_]

Well. eventually someone looked at it. And probably Heartbleed has been used a long time before it was published.